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Spain successfully raised euro2.5 billion ($3.3 billion) in a short-term debt sale with strong demand and lower interest rates indicating growing market confidence in the new government's ability to handle its finances.
The first trial of the Spanish judge who became internationally known for indicting former Chilean leader Augusto Pinochet finished Thursday with the magistrate denying he unlawfully handled a domestic corruption probe.
A Spanish savings bank has fired two directors and is investigating two former executives for allegedly syphoning off euro20 million ($26.5 million) into secret pension funds, the bank said Saturday.
Throw a dart at a map of Europe now and it takes expert aim to hit a country run by a left-of-center government, especially after Spain's Socialists were emphatically drubbed out of power over the weekend.
Day after day, Spanish chef Jesus Lopez serves up treats like a steaming stew of red beans with spicy chorizo sausage and bacon chunks. And that's just the first course. Next comes hake au gratin on a bed of spinach, and cream-stuffed puff pastry for dessert.
Spain raised euro4.5 billion ($6.2 billion) in two debt auctions Thursday, with increased interest rates and weak demand showing investor unease amid the Greek debt crisis.
Banco Santander said Thursday its third-quarter profits rose 10 percent compared to the same period a year ago to euro1.8 billion ($2.5 billion) thanks to higher revenue.
Basques digesting the apparent end of separatist group ETA's armed campaign are taking it with quiet, careful relief. Because the more than four decades of violence were too agonizing, there was no celebratory dancing in the streets or champagne bottles being popped open.
A Spanish hospital says a baby cut from his dead mother in a Madrid church after a random shooting has died.
A Basque-language newspaper that acts as a mouthpiece for the separatist group ETA says a civic support organization for the group has disbanded in Spain.
Spain's Parliament restored a deficit-reducing wealth tax Thursday in its final session before dissolving to make way for an election that opposition conservatives are favored to win.
A Spanish court convicted a prominent Basque separatist of terrorism Friday and sentenced him to 10 years in prison for trying to resurrect the banned political wing of the militant group ETA.
Spanish owners of an oil tanker hijacked off West Africa are hoping pirates just want to steal the crude, rather than hold the 23-member crew hostage for ransom.
Anger over government austerity measures spread Tuesday to Spain's education system, as public secondary school teachers in Madrid went on strike to protest staff cuts.
The mood in Spain's classrooms is gloomy as the academic year begins with public school teachers announcing a wave of national rallies Thursday to protest against spending cuts they fear will undermine education in a country with a 45 percent youth jobless rate.
An official at Spain's Alhambra palace says a Jordanian tourist was caught carving his initials with a coin into a wall of the complex that is considered a gem of Moorish architecture.
Spain's lower house of Parliament has approved a hotly contested constitutional amendment that will force the government to keep its future deficits very low.
An international accounting board has sharply criticized some European banks and financial firms for not taking sufficient writedowns on the Greek bonds they hold.
Pope Benedict XVI urged more than 1.5 million young people to become missionaries for the faith Sunday, giving them words of encouragement as he concluded a glitch-marred church youth festival and announced that the next edition will be in Rio de Janeiro in 2013.
A Spanish judge ordered the release Thursday of a young Mexican chemistry student arrested on suspicion of plotting a gas attack on protesters opposed to a visit here by Pope Benedict XVI, but the suspect remains under investigation.
It's the stuff of a soap opera starring European nobles: at age 85, one of Spain's richest and most title-laden women wants to wed a civil servant young enough to be her son. To placate her six wary children, she's signed over to them palatial chunks of her wealth.
Spain's Parliament won't vote on key changes to the European Union's bailout funds until September because the legislature is in the midst of its summer recess, a Spanish Finance Ministry official said Monday.
Spanish police say the body of a young Cuban stowaway was found inside the landing gear compartment of a jetliner that flew from Havana to Madrid.
Inma Rodriguez lost her job, and now that she's defaulted on her mortgage, she's about to lose her home. But the nightmare doesn't end there: Once creditors kick her out, she'll still need to pay back the money she borrowed to buy her house.
A man was arrested in Spain after curling himself up inside a large suitcase that was placed in an airport bus cargo bay and sneaking out to steal from other people's luggage, police said Thursday.
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